ASML's architects : the story of the engineers who shaped the world's most powerful chip machines [First English edition.] 9789082707427, 908270742X


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Table of contents :
Preface
Introduction
Wafer Stepper Prehistory
1962-1969
1. A Strange Insect
2. Philips Elcoma
3. David Mann
4. Ad Bouwer
5. The Violin Maker
A License to Print Money
1970-1975
6. A Born Engineer
7. Travel Companions
8. Technical Note 105/71
9. The Silicon Repeater
10. American Style
Death Throes
1976-1983
11. Wim Troost
12.‌ Troost’s Letter
13. GCA Plays Its Trump Card
14. Knocking on the Government’s Door
15. The Electric Wafer Table
16. The Rescue Mission
17. A Brick Shithouse
The Deal
1983-1984
Arthur del Prado
18. Arthur del Prado
19. Fifty-Fifty
20. The Contract from Hell
A Leveraged Die-Out
1984
21. Gjalt Smit
22. Hoodwinked
23. The Reunion
24. The Deadline
25. A Hundred Million Dollars
26. From Paris to Oberkochen
27. The Company from Hell
28. The Japanese
29. The First Drawings
30. The Cartoon Presentation
31. The First Want Ad
The Deadline
1984-1986
32. The Business Plan
33. Landmark
34. Back to Elcoma
35. Victoria Veste
36. Anthill
37. Hotel Victoria
3. The American Market
39. If Something’s Supposed to Come in on Friday, It Isn’t Coming at All
40. Hurry, Hurry, the Future’s Nipping at Your Heels
41. We Can Win This
42. We Hear You, Jerry
43. AMD
44. Smit’s Sounding Board
45. Emergency Meeting
46. Not Wild About Wild
The Big Spender
1986-1987
47. Euphoria
48. America’s Toughest Boss
49. Temptation Strikes Del Prado Once Again
50. The Sun Sets on GCA
51. Japanese Reliability
52. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
53. Take It or Leave It
54. Eighty Bucks and Sayonara
Running in Place
1988-1990
55. The Fat Man
56. Flat Broke
57. Promising Customers
58. Nikon’s Achilles Heel
59. Cash Flow Positive
60. Turbo Mode Engaged
61. IBM
Stuck With Each Other
1990-1992
62. The Circle Sir
63. German Stranglehold
64. A Movie for IBM
65. The Folk with the Golden Fingers
66. Japanese Glass
67. O-Lab
68. Blue Eyes
69. No-Brainer
Growth
1993-1996
70. A Good Team
71. Value of Ownership
72. Scanning
73. The Korean Gorilla
74. Forty Thieves
75. The Medicine Man
76. An Audience with The Tank
77. Grassmann’s Baptism by Fire
78. On Its Own Two Feet
Appendices
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
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Endnotes

ASML's architects : the story of the engineers who shaped the world's most powerful chip machines [First English edition.]
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